Engineering Manager - Berlin - Freenow by Lyft

Polluxa, Inc.; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Freenow by Lyft in Berlin seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing software engineering team focused on scaling a new product vertical. You will drive technical excellence, foster psychological safety, and align with product strategy across Freenow markets.

You will coach engineers, own delivery quality, and collaborate with product managers and designers to maximize business impact while building an innovative customer and driver support platform.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams.
• Strong collaboration with product and design.
• Hands-on with software quality and delivery processes.

Aufgaben

• Lead a high-performing software engineering team to deliver scalable solutions.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to engineers.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Designers to align on priorities and roadmaps.
• Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans and drive execution.

Kenntnisse

Team leadership

Software architecture

Coaching & mentoring

Jobbeschreibung

Location : Come and join us in Berlin!

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions helping people to move freely and cities to thrive.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team of software engineers who are focused on scaling an exciting new product vertical. We are building a complex, intelligent system to modernize the traditional taxi industry. Your goal is to lead the team to transform offline fleets into digital businesses.

This critical role ensures team’s alignment with product and business strategy, while driving efficient delivery of features. You will foster an environment of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous individual development, ultimately maximizing business impact across all Freenow markets through innovation. Be ready to work in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team of passionate colleagues who strive for excellence and enjoy their work. Are you ready for your next ride?

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

• Team Performance & Delivery: Within the frame of quarterly goals and company strategy, lead the team in delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions. Focus on continuously improving engineering processes to ensure predictable, timely delivery while managing team capacity and focus. You inspire innovation to disrupt incumbents.
• People Development: Provide coaching, mentoring, and continuous feedback to team members. Identify development areas and growth opportunities to support individual career paths and enhance team competence in building innovative customer and driver support solutions. You get to build a team from the ground up.
• Technical Ownership: In collaboration with Staff Engineers and Principals, lead technical decision-making for the support systems. Ensure high standards of quality, reliability, maintainability, and observability in all solutions, particularly the large-scale systems handling customer and driver interactions.
• Strategic Execution: Translate product and tech strategy into actionable team plans. Align team activities with business priorities, ensuring efficient execution and adapting plans as needed.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the main engineering counterpart to Product Managers and Designers. Build strong relationships to ensure transparency, challenge product decisions where needed, and jointly maximize business impact by providing world-class support technology.
• Culture & Team Building: Foster a team culture based on trust, psychological safety, collaboration, and feedback. Ensure diverse perspectives are heard, encourage curiosity, and build a resilient and motivated team.